Fri Nov 13, 2009 6:42 AM EST
Spanish airline Iberia SA, poised to merge with British Airways PLC, reported Friday a loss of euro16.4 million ($24.5 million) in the third quarter, compared to a profit of euro30.4 million a year earlier, as the economic crisis sapped demand for air travel.
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Thu Nov 5, 2009 9:40 AM EST
World powers including the U.S., Russia and China are teaming up at sea to tackle the pirates plaguing Somalia's lawless coast, as a sharp increase in attacks has forced nations who may be rivals on land to make unlikely alliances.
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Wed Oct 21, 2009 8:28 PM EDT
The European Union has launched an investigation into a prized Spanish wetland that has turned bone dry through mismanagement of water resources and is now on fire underground, white smoke now rising from areas where fish once swam.
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Sat Oct 17, 2009 2:24 PM EDT
A huge crowd rallied in Madrid Saturday against a bill to ease restrictions on abortion — a vivid and emotional show of how the issue remains sensitive two decades after abortion was legalized in this traditionally Roman Catholic country.
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Thu Oct 15, 2009 4:19 PM EDT
Spain's Parliament approved a law Thursday narrowing the scope of a cross-border justice doctrine which had allowed judges to indict people like Augusto Pinochet and Osama bin Laden.
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Tue Oct 6, 2009 7:48 AM EDT
Two men captured in connection with the hijacking of a Spanish tuna boat in the Indian Ocean will be brought to Madrid on orders from a judge, a Defense Ministry official said Tuesday.
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Wed Sep 30, 2009 10:41 AM EDT
The British charity Save the Children, joined by celebrities including Annie Lennox and Julia Ormond, announced Wednesday a global campaign to cut infant mortality among children under the age of 5 by more than half.
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Thu Sep 24, 2009 6:51 AM EDT
Spain said Thursday it has disqualified a group of Israeli academics from a solar power design competition because their university is in the West Bank, the latest in a series of low-level European sanctions against Israel over its settlement policy.
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Wed Sep 23, 2009 12:55 PM EDT
A little-known Spanish matador is breaking with a sacred tradition, agreeing to advertise on his cape while slaying bulls and endorse a soft drink that caters to gays.
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Tue Sep 22, 2009 9:29 AM EDT
The mayor of a Spanish resort town was ousted Tuesday in the culmination of a battle that pitted one of the country's most powerful politicians against her own mother on a question of discipline.
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Mon Sep 21, 2009 11:52 AM EDT
Chess eminences Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov are dusting off their knights and pawns for an exhibition rematch marking the 25th anniversary of their first title bout — a grueling one that lasted five months and was eventually halted.
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Fri Sep 18, 2009 1:20 PM EDT
Times are hard in much of Spain, but down south it's getting serious: Court clerks are reduced to forgoing taxis and catching a bus when they have to serve a summons.
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Fri Sep 18, 2009 9:32 AM EDT
Spain's prime minister will meet with President Barack Obama next month at the White House, officials said Friday, the culmination of a Spanish drive to repair ties that were frayed over the Iraq war when George W. Bush was in power.
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Wed Sep 16, 2009 9:30 AM EDT
A court in Barcelona says insulting your boss with one particularly foul obscenity is not grounds for dismissal, insisting the slight is common in arguments in Spain and not that big a deal.
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Sun Sep 13, 2009 7:27 AM EDT
A pocket of Spanish suburbia hardly seems the spot for a new swine flu battlefront, but an eatery in a shopping mall outside Madrid claims to be the world's first restaurant with a specific plan to protect against the disease.
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Thu Sep 10, 2009 9:07 AM EDT
A drive to oust the mayor of a Spanish resort has drawn in two unlikely opponents: a powerful member of Spain's governing Socialist party and her own mother.
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Tue Sep 8, 2009 7:41 AM EDT
The Spanish judge best known for indicting Augusto Pinochet and Osama bin Laden appeared in court Wednesday with the tables turned: this time he was a suspect, accused of overstepping his authority in a huge domestic case involving Spanish civil war atrocities.
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Fri Aug 21, 2009 10:05 AM EDT
Spain's Catholic Church has new advice for pilgrims to Santiago de Compostela: Don't kiss the saint.
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Thu Aug 20, 2009 7:20 AM EDT
Spaniards honored 154 people who died a year ago Thursday in the crash of a Spanair jetliner in Madrid, praying for them at Mass and laying flowers at a plaque bearing a pledge they will never be forgotten.
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Sun Jul 12, 2009 11:31 AM EDT
Spain's Socialist prime minister has irked his natural enemies on the right and in the Catholic church by legalizing gay marriage and instituting fast-track divorce. Now he has hit a raw nerve even among his supporters with a proposal to let 16-year-olds get abortions without parental consent.
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Mon Jun 29, 2009 8:15 PM EDT
A Spanish court on Tuesday shelved a judge's investigation of an Israeli air force bombing in Gaza in 2002 that killed a suspected Hamas militant and 14 civilians, siding with prosecutors who said Spain lacks jurisdiction.
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Mon Jun 22, 2009 11:52 AM EDT
Italy's Dolomite mountains and the Wadden Sea along the coasts of Germany and the Netherlands were among several sites added Friday to UNESCO's world heritage list.
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Fri Jun 19, 2009 3:50 AM EDT
A powerful bomb exploded Friday near the Basque city of Bilbao, killing a policeman in an attack blamed on the separatist group ETA.
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Tue Jun 16, 2009 5:43 AM EDT
Moody's Investors Service has downgraded the ratings of 30 Spanish banks and building societies, citing Spain's economic downturn and a big rise in non-performing loans.
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Wed Jun 3, 2009 8:46 PM EDT
Only a month old and already in a bad mood, a baby white rhino conceived through artificial insemination is delighting keepers at a Spanish zoo.
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